Deja Vu ... I just love the rationalizations.

[TahitiNut]

Enjoy!!

[slipslidingaway]

1. K&R n/t

[Ioo]

2. Jesus Christ MOVE THE FUCK ON!

The MONKEY IS NOT RACIST. JUST MOVE ON, WE HAVE REAL SHIT TO DEAL WITH.

[SidneyCarton]

3. Yes we need to move on.

Just like we needed to move on about Gillibrand, Rick Warren, or any one of the other things that we beat to death here. This too shall pass.

[Ioo]

4. Big difference to me - Your things were real issues... this is a fake issue

People looking for something to get upset about.

[cliffordu]

6. facepalm.

[DevonRex]

7. Then get the fuck out of this thread. YOU move on.

[SidneyCarton]

8. One man's issue is another man's nontroversy.

After many sharp and crude arguments, I have to agree with you, those issues I mentioned were real, and belittling the concerns of those who brought them up was wrong. But these concerns are equally real to those who have brought them up, and therefore belittling their concerns is equally wrong, for it is just as insensitive as the so-called "STFU posts."

[merh]

21. wish I could recommend your post

:thumbsup:

[TahitiNut]

9. Wow. No lint in YOUR navel, huh??

:rofl:

[SidneyCarton]

12. Were that a same-sex couple being filled with holes instead of a chimp...

I seriously doubt we would be having this conversation.

Yes, the Connecticut Police shot a chimpanzee recently. Yet that Chimpanzee was used in the cartoon as the symbolic author of the Stimulus package. The titular author of the Stimulus is President Obama, an African American, and the likening of African Americans to primates, such as Chimpanzees has been a trope of racist literature for the last two centuries at least.

Much like with pornography, many here may not be able to define "dog-whistle" politics, but they know it when they see it.

(Edited to add the correct police force to the post)

[TahitiNut]

15. When stereotypes are employed in political cartoons, the intention cannot be ignored

... except by the ignorant. While I suppose there's something heartening about those who are actually ignorant of this particular stereotype, I have my doubts that all those feigning denial are ignorant of the slur.

Interesting.

[madokie]

18. Interesting and very telling indeed

I bet you never figured on getting jumped on like you just were, huh :-)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5096248&mesg_id=5096248

[noiretextatique]

25. oh tahitinut, there you go making people feel uncomfortable

about the racism that is still present in american society. a lot of people don't like to hear about that or see it. someone posted pictures of that awful racist advertising that was the norm in america not that long ago, and some people were disturbed because they has to look at those images.
anyway, racism is one of those non-issues that a lot of ______ americans don't like to discuss because it makes them feel uncomfortable.

[TahitiNut]

28. I'm used to feeling like a kid in a candy store -- in the midst of diabetics.

:silly:

:hug: :loveya:

[leftofthedial]

13. Yeah! All you people!

You have no right to talk about anything I don't think is important!

[SidneyCarton]

20. And what is this "real shit" of which you speak?

And why is it important now, if it was not of primary importance at other times?

[blondeatlast]

24. Well, then, I guess there's no need for DU to exist then. I less than anxiously await your

discussion board--it will come in handy when I'm desperately in need of sleep. :eyes:

[EmilyAnne]

30. Why does the possibility of this being racist make you so angry?

[cliffordu]

5. I love them too. K&R

I wonder if people would interpret the chimp cartoon any differently if the caption was:

"They'll have to find someone else to vote against the next stimulus bill"

[JackRiddler]

26. I wonder if my grandmother was a train.

[cliffordu]

27. I heard your grandma

thought she was a train.



All aboard.

[DevonRex]

10. K&R nt

[Uncle Joe]

11. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, TahitiNut.

[AlCzervik]

14. Thank God it passed!

:thumbsup:

[newtothegame]

16. Another post...moving on...

[Marr]

17. I have to admit that at first, I didn't see it in the chimp cartoon.

I skimmed it, and assumed the chimp *was* the stimulus bill, rather than the bill's author. IMHO, the words actually take it several steps past plain racism and make it more of a racist "joke" about assassination.

[jmg257]

19. Is the New Yorker cover poking fun at people who say Obama was a 'terrorist', or are THEY

saying he's a terrorist???

[TahitiNut]

22. What do you suppose 'Vanity Fair" thought??

[jmg257]

23. Not sure - I don't get this one.

:shrug: :dunce:

[bridgit]

29. Well yes but we're progressives - copyright 2009, all rights reserved